European Commissioner Barnier responds to Euricse's appeal

26/09/2012 - Good news for European cooperative banking. After the European Banking Authority, now the European Commission, represented by the Commissioner responsible for internal market and...
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Euricse at UN's Closing Ceremony

Closing Ceremonies of the 2012 IYC, was held at UN Headquarters in New York, 19-20 November 2012. The event celebrated the achievements of the Year and recognize the heightened enthusiasm for the...
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Euricse’s contribution to the International Year of Cooperatives

This report summarizes the main findings of the conference ‘Promoting the Understanding of Cooperatives for a Better World’, which was co-organized by Euricse and the International Co-...
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World Co-operative Monitor

The first multi-dimensionalranking of cooperatives worldwide The main goal of the world Co-operative Monitor project is to improve a multi- indicator database reporting on the socio-...
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Publications

WP 51|13 Le performance delle cooperative di servizi durante la crisi:...

La presente ricerca, condotta con il metodo tradizionale degli indici di bilancio, riguarda le performance economiche e finanziarie ottenute negli anni 2009–2011 da parte di 30 cooperative di lavoro nel settore servizi. Le cooperative indagate sono di dimensioni medie (fatturato 30–50 mi...

WP 50|13 Impact of agricultural cooperatives on smallholders’ technica...

 Using household survey data from Ethiopia, this paper evaluates the impact of agricultural cooperatives on smallholders’ technical efficiency. We utilize propensity score matching to compare the average difference in technical efficiency between cooperative farmers and similar independen...

WP 49|13 Economía cooperativa: un enfoque innovador para la sostenibil...

 Un primer balance del Año Internacional del Cooperativismo evidencia como las formas de la economía cooperativa sean plurales, amplias y de larga duración. A estos rasgos distintivos se debe la particular resiliencia y la amplitud de uso de este tipo de empresa, a la cual,...

WP 49|13 Economia cooperativa: un approccio innovativo alla sostenibil...

 Da un primo bilancio dell’Anno Internazionale delle Cooperative emerge quanto le forme dell’economia cooperativa siano plurali, diffuse e longeve. Da qui la particolare resilienza e ampiezza di uso di questa forma di impresa, cui tuttavia corrisponde una percezione pubblica che ten...

Projects

Processes of differentiation and innovation in social enterprises

This project investigates how innovation is articulated within social cooperatives, differentiating between product, process, sector and end user innovations. The data is collected by administering questionnaires and conducting interviews. The objective is to find causes and conseque...

The role of the cooperative sector in the accumulation of social...

This research project focuses on the role of the cooperative sector in offering an explanation for the exceptional performance of the Province of Trento in terms of development and well-being. To this purpose, we will set up an original empirical framework, drawing on both primary and...

Politics and actions for work integration. An analysis of the role...

The project unfolds in two different parts: + the first aims at analysing the means by which B-type cooperatives integrate production, training and placement activities, both within their organization and on the outside job market; + the second measures the efficiency and success ra...

The World Cooperative Monitor

The inaugural World Co-operative Monitor, ranking the largest co-operative and mutual enterprises by turnover and collecting data on all sizes o...
Siti EuricseJEODThe Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD) focuses on the subject of entrepreneurial diversity, encompassing therefore all enterprise types and models.
SCGSocial Capital Gateway (SCG) is a web site publishing materials for the study of social capital and related topics in a multidisciplinary perspective.